Cody Carr couldn’t believe his ears as he stood inside Everbloom, a dispensary he owns at 5110 Race Street, in the early hours of February 6. The store had just suffered the latest in a series of break-in attempts dating back to December, and Carr hadn’t finished reporting the crime when his phone started buzzing.
It was the building alarm at his other Everbloom dispensary, at 4095 Jackson Street, notifying Carr that store was also the target of a break-in.
“While we were on the phone with the police about one store, someone was actively breaking into another one,” he recalls. “I asked the police if they’d go over there instead. The stores are about four minutes apart and in the same neighborhood.”
Police got to the scene but didn’t pursue any suspects, Carr says; he estimates the scofflaws did around $50,000 worth of damage to the building, and also stole an ATM as well as a few hundred dollars of edibles. But that wasn’t the worst blow he’s suffered: During a December 27 burglary at the Everbloom on Race, $20,000 worth of marijuana was stolen, according to Carr, and there’s no insurance for stolen weed, even if it’s state-legal.
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